Overview
The Bioinformatics Ph.D. program creates professionals prepared to conduct novel interdisciplinary research in the fields of computational molecular biology and bioinformatics. Graduates have the expertise to join faculty programs in bioinformatics, medicine or computer science, or to assume high–level research positions in government or industry.
 
Research training at UC Denver spans computational aspects of basic, translational and clinical sciences in a wide variety of disciplines and disease areas. Students rapidly begin to define and execute their own research and become involved with faculty research projects.

Research Areas Include:

• Physical simulations of biological macromolecules and their dynamics
• Gene expression array analysis and interpretation of expression data
• Proteomic informatics
• Biomedical ontologies and knowledge-based systems
• Natural language processing in the biomedical literature
• Computational pharmacology
• Metabolic and signaling pathway analysis
• Evolutionary reconstruction and disease gene finding
• Semantic web and systems integration